Essentially, opening web sites is what we use Internet Explorer most often for. Address Bar is the box where we type in addresses of web sites or web pages. Internet Explorer 9 has an improved Address bar with integrated Search and Autocomplete from History, Favorites and Feeds contents.

In case you are typing in an address for a web page you have not visited before, you can press Enter to open it in the current Tab or Alt+Enter to open it in a new Tab and switch to it immediately. If you prefer to open the address in background and not switch the currently active Tab, press Alt+Shift+Enter on your keyboard.You can select the current Address Bar contents by pressing Alt+D or Ctlr+L on your keyboard. When you start typing, you replace the current address in Address Bar.

When you press F4 on your keyboard or click on the down arrow button on the right side of Address Bar, you will see the list of recently visited web sites and items on your computer. You can click on any of these links to open the address (also known as URL - Uniform Resource Locator) in current Tab. In case you prefer to open the web page in a new Tab, hold down Alt key on your keyboard and click on the address.See how Internet Explorer 9 also offers some results from previously visited websites (History) and your Favorites.

If the site you want is not on the recently visited sites list, you can type in one or more letters of it instead. For example, to find "http://www.majorgeeks.com" in history, type in "m" and you will see the list of visited web sites starting with letter "m".You can select the Address Bar contents by pressing Alt+D on your keyboard. Then just type a letter to replace the current Address Bar contents.To start searching for a term using defined search engines (e.g. Bing, Google), type a question mark first, for example ? what is the meaning of life. You can also start searching using a keyboard shortcut Ctrl+E.

You can click on the web page you want from the list or you can press Shift+Enter on your keyboard to open the first site on the list. Use arrow keys on your keyboard to move up and down the list.If you want to add "www" and ".com" to a web site name you typed in, press Ctrl+Enter on your keyboard - to go to www.bing.com, all you need to do is type in "bing" and press Ctrl+Enter.Like said before, use Alt+Enter to open selected address in a new Tab, but if you do not want to see the Tab right away, you can open it in the background by pressing Alt+Shift+Enter on your keyboard - this leaves your currently open Tab active.

If you want to delete a web page from the list, click the X mark on the right side of the address. This deletes the page from Internet Explorer history. Or you can use Del (Delete) key to delete a site from History.

If you do not see a list of visited sites after typing in one letter, continue typing the next letter. This enhances Address Bar list a lot - it now searches entered letters both in History, Feeds and Favorites. As usual, you can click Shift+Enter to open the first address on the list, click on any other address to open it, or delete an address from Internet Explorer History by moving your mouse pointer over it and clicking X button on the right side.In case you have enabled searching from Address Bar, you will also see a list of suggestions from your default search provider. You can switch between multiple search providers by clicking their icons on the bottom of the list.Enabling searching from Internet Explorer 9 Address Bar and selecting AutoComplete contents are explained later in the article.

How to enable searching from Address Bar and select which entries AutoComplete uses

Many users upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 do not see any search results from their Search Providers in Internet Explorer 9 Address Bar while using the question mark or keyboard shortcut Ctrl+E.To use Search Providers in Address Bar, open Internet options from Tools menu. Or use the following key sequence on keyboard (works only in English version of Internet Explorer): Alt, T, O.

Then, under General tab find Search section and click Settings.

Click a Search Provider name and make sure that Search suggestions is set to Enabled. Then click to select the Search in the address bar check box.Click Close after making changes.

Searching in Address Bar is now enabled.

To control which items are displayed while typing a part of an internet address, click to open Content tab. Find the AutoComplete section and click Settings.

In the Use AutoComplete for section, make sure that Use Windows Search for better results is turned on. This makes searching much faster.Next, select any items you want to be searched for while typing letters into Internet Explorer Address Bar.The Feeds item is useful only if you have subscribed to any RSS or Atom feeds in Internet Explorer or Windows Live Mail.For security reasons, make sure that the Ask me before saving passwords box is clear. This means that no passwords are automatically saved. Remember, passwords stored by any Internet browser can be easily stealed by a virus or other malware - you really would not want that to happen!